Re: [RFC PATCH] drm/i915: Drop extern qualifiers from header function prototypes

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Wed Jul 10 2019 - 11:01:22 EST


Quoting Janusz Krzysztofik (2019-07-10 15:52:39)
> Follow dim checkpatch recommendation so it doesn't complain on that now
> and again on header file modifications.
>
> Signed-off-by: Janusz Krzysztofik <janusz.krzysztofik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
> @@ -2388,19 +2388,18 @@ __i915_printk(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv, const char *level,
> __i915_printk(dev_priv, KERN_ERR, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> -extern long i915_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
> - unsigned long arg);
> +long i915_compat_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
> #else
> #define i915_compat_ioctl NULL
> #endif
> extern const struct dev_pm_ops i915_pm_ops;
> +extern const struct dev_pm_ops i915_pm_ops_1;

That's novel.
-Chris